□ Thursday, 5 Nov 2009

Inside Leonardo's Notebook
World-famous as a capital of fashion and design, Italy's second city has a more modest reputation for cultural heritage. Here in the country's business and financial center, local pride focuses on contemporary success rather than past glory. More...

Contemporary artists must do better
London has never teemed with as many celebrated artists as it does now – but how many will we remember? More...

□ Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009

Hirst Collector Victor Pinchuk Plans New Arts Center for Kiev
Victor Pinchuk, one of Ukraine’s richest men, will build a contemporary-art center in downtown Kiev, with the hope of making the country’s capital a major destination on the global art map. More...

□ Monday, 2 Nov 2009

On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices
The images splashed across the pages of this fall’s auction catalogs are as familiar as they are telling: Degas dancers and Pissarro landscapes; Picasso portraits and Warhol dollar bills. More...

Is This a Michelangelo?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Young Archer is a marble Renaissance youth with an amazing backstory: Thirteen years ago, it was declared by NYU’s Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt to be an early work of Michelangelo himself. More...

On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices
The images splashed across the pages of this fall’s auction catalogs are as familiar as they are telling: Degas dancers and Pissarro landscapes; Picasso portraits and Warhol dollar bills. More...

□ Sunday, 1 Nov 2009

Sotheby's to Sell Furniture, Works of Art and Sculpture in Paris
The sale of furniture, works of art and sculpture to be staged at Sotheby’s Paris on November 10 reflects the diversity and richness of the decorative arts in 18th century France. More...

Christie's to Sell Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper
Christie's is pleased to present an exceptional line-up of offerings from the leading masters of the Impressionist and Modern periods in its upcoming Works on Paper and Day sales on November 4. More...

□ Friday, 30 Oct 2009

Destroying art for art's sake
Many of the art attacks carried out by individuals lurch between lunacy and criminality - the man who attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican with a hammer, while shouting "I am Jesus" is seen as a lunatic. More...

ICE Agents Recover Stolen Italian Artifacts Smuggled into the United States
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents seized two stolen Italian artifacts that date back more than 2,000 years. The items were illegally excavated in Italy, smuggled into the United States and offered for sale in New York. More...

□ Thursday, 29 Oct 2009

MoMA owns up to Warhol rejection letter from 1956
Culture Monster has reported on many art museums and we know firsthand just how humorless they can be. (No, we will not name names.) More...

□ Sunday, 25 Oct 2009

Chelmsford Museum Tastes Success at Auction
Chelmsford Museum has succeeded in snaring at auction its first work by locally born painter and Slade professor Frederick Brown (1851 -1941) - after being thwarted in its attempt to acquire a similar painting by the artist that went under the hammer in 2007. More...

□ Saturday, 24 Oct 2009

Return of a Soviet-Era Genre Lost to Perestroika
When Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the former Soviet Union and Communist Party leader, introduced perestroika in the late 1980s, his policies had a profound affect on almost every aspect of life. More...

□ Monday, 19 Oct 2009

Sotheby's Four-Day Romano Sale Achieves $15,435,780
At the close of Sotheby’s four-day Romano sale series in Florence, featuring over 1,800 lots from the spectacular collection of Salvatore Romano and his son Francesco, the total sum exceeded the pre-sale low estimate... More...

□ Friday, 16 Oct 2009

British Sculptor Involved in Tragic Accident Dies
British police say a sculptor whose inflatable artwork blew away and killed two people in a 2006 accident has died. More...